The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (season 3)
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| The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | |
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| Season 3 | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 14, 1992 – May 10, 1993 |
| Season chronology | |
The third season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered on September 14, 1992 and aired its season finale on May 10, 1993. This would be the last season for Janet Hubert-Whitten, who left the show for professional and personal reasons.
Janet Hubert-Whitten was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid in the show's fourth season and for the remainder of the show's run. Additionally, the character Nicky Banks was added to the cast toward the end of the season as Phillip and Vivian's newborn son, due to Hubert-Whitten's pregnancy.
Episodes[]
- Will Smith, James Avery, Karyn Parsons, and Tatyana M. Ali were present for all episodes.
- Alfonso Ribeiro was absent for one episode.
- Janet Hubert-Whitten and Joseph Marcell were absent for three episodes each.
- DJ Jazzy Jeff was present for seven episodes.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 50 | 1 | "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" | Jeff Melman | Andy Borowitz & Susan Borowitz | September 14, 1992 | 446951 |
| Will returns home from spending the summer in Philadelphia with a new look that does not sit well with Philip and has about two weeks left before he starts school at Bel-Air Academy. It angers Phillip even more when Ashley starts to pick up Will's habits. Will left home and returns home when he secretly hoping to run into Tabitha there while after being picked up by a cop, but finds her and they agree to just be friends. Phil doesn’t punish Will, instead he punishes Hillary, Carlton, and Ashley. | ||||||
| 51 | 2 | "Will Gets Committed" | Jeff Melman | Leslie Ray & David Steven Simon | September 21, 1992 | 446952 |
| Philip and Vivian organize a cleanup effort in the riot-torn remains of their old LA neighborhood. The family flashes back to the late 1970s when they used to live in this old neighborhood before Ashley was born. Also detailed is how Philip joined the Beverly Hills law firm of Firth, Wynn & Meyer, enabling him to move his family to Bel-Air. Vivian announces that she is pregnant. | ||||||
| 52 | 3 | "That's No Lady, That's My Cousin" | Jeff Melman | Bryan Winter | September 28, 1992 | 446953 |
| Enrolled at the newly co-ed Bel-Air Prep, Ashley begins dressing to entice guys, using Will's preferences in women as her examples. As Will and Carlton prepare for their senior year. Philip and Vivian ask Hilary to move out, since the baby is coming. But Hilary found a place. It is at the pool house, since they said they want her out of the house, not off the property. Guest appearances by Garcelle Beauvais and Larenz Tate. | ||||||
| 53 | 4 | "Hilary Gets a Job" | Jeff Melman | Lisa Rosenthal | October 5, 1992 | 446954 |
| Hilary gets a job on television as a weathergirl and finds herself attracted to the anchorman, Trevor Collins (Brian Stokes Mitchell). Will helped Hilary get a job and needs her help to get exposure to save the rec center. | ||||||
| 54 | 5 | "Mama's Baby, Carlton's Maybe" | Jeff Melman | Winifred Hervey Stallworth | October 12, 1992 | 446956 |
| Carlton prepares for a dinner date with his former girlfriend, Cindy (Lark Voorhies), forgiving her for rejecting him several months earlier, but when she arrives with a newborn baby named Carlton Jr., the entire Banks family is stunned. | ||||||
| 55 | 6 | "P.S. I Love You" | Jeff Melman | Linda M. Yearwood | October 24, 1992 | 446955 |
| Philip intends to railroad the ineffectual Judge Robertson (Sherman Hemsley), who was Philip's mentor and teacher in Law School, off the bench while Will becomes the "love slave" of Lindsey Simon (Michole Briana White), a flamboyantly generous plain student. Will accepts many expensive gifts from her, including tickets to the Los Angeles Lakers game, a Harley-Davidson, and even a jacket emblazoned with a motif of his hero Malcolm X. In the end however, she reveals that she doesn’t like him. She explained she went with him to boost her own reputation. | ||||||
| 56 | 7 | "Here Comes the Judge" | Jeff Melman | Samm-Art Williams | October 26, 1992 | 446958 |
| Will is arrested for numerous parking tickets he claims he did not get as Philip runs for judge against incumbent Judge Robertson. Once Will sees the tickets funds, Will realizes that he left the car with Jazz for the summer and he is the one who got the tickets, not him. Will gets very furious with Jazz for not telling Will about the tickets because friends don't keep things like that from each other. He tells him that they are no longer friends and that he is no longer welcome in the home. However, they work things out, and get back together as friends in the end. | ||||||
| 57 | 8 | "Boyz in the Woods" | Shelley Jensen | Samm-Art Williams | November 5, 1992 | 446957 |
| Philip takes Will and Carlton on a camping trip that turns out to be a disaster when snow traps the unhappy campers before they head off to college. Will finds $25,000 dollars in a bag. | ||||||
| 58 | 9 | "A Night at the Oprah" | Malcolm-Jamal Warner | Efrem Seeger | November 9, 1992 | 446959 |
| The Banks are invited on The Oprah Winfrey Show as a replacement family, but what Will does not know is that there is no room for him to go. He disrupts the show and it leads to Uncle Phil's poll ratings to go down. | ||||||
| 59 | 10 | "Asses to Ashes" | Jeff Melman | Leslie Ray & David Steven Simon | November 16, 1992 | 446960 |
| Election results are in and Philip fights to remain cool amid lies by Judge Robertson, which prompt Will to confront the outspoken incumbent. Chaos ensues when the judge dies after Will tells him to drop dead. Uncle Phil must give the eulogy at the funeral, where to Will's and Uncle Phil's surprise, everybody hated him and are glad he died. After the funeral, Phillip gets a call from the Governor and is appointed Superior Court Judge. | ||||||
| 60 | 11 | "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" | Jeff Melman | Lisa Rosenthal | November 23, 1992 | 446961 |
| At Vivian's Lamaze class, Will cozies up to Danny Mitchell (Vanessa Williams), a pregnant sportswriter who takes Will to a game and delivers more than just fun. When she has her baby in the back of the limo, Will must put what he learned about breathing to the test for her. | ||||||
| 61 | 12 | "The Cold War" | Jeff Melman | Winifred Hervey Stallworth | December 7, 1992 | 446962 |
| Carlton is very depressed after being rejected by Paula, unaware that she has left him for Will. Meanwhile, Philip and Vivian receive an envelope from their doctor containing an ultrasound picture revealing the sex of Vivian's fetus. Not wanting to spoil their surprise in the delivery room, they entrust the sealed envelope to their butler, Geoffrey. Then curiosity gets the better of them. | ||||||
| 62 | 13 | "Mommy Nearest" | Jeff Melman | Leslie Ray & David Steven Simon | December 14, 1992 | 446963 |
| Will's mother tells Will that she has broken her engagement to Robert and eagerly awaits her son's graduation so they can return to Philadelphia together. A shocked Will is afraid to tell her that he wants to attend college in California and remain with his Bel-Air family and friends, and suffers a nightmarish fantasy of what it would be like still living with his mother when he is 72 years old. | ||||||
| 63 | 14 | "Winner Takes Off" | Shelley Jensen | Casey Maxwell Clair | January 4, 1993 | 446964 |
| Will and Carlton decide to play a trick on Geoffrey as revenge for an earlier hustle and convince him that he has won a multimillion dollar lottery. However, this backfires when Geoffrey immediately quits his job after insulting the whole family. Upon learning the truth from the boys, Geoffrey is left so embarrassed he decides to leave anyway. He goes to work at a restaurant and the boys try to get him to come back home by doing embarrassing things to make him crack, such as stealing others food and pretending that he is their father. | ||||||
| 64 | 15 | "Robbing the Banks" | Shelley Jensen | Winifred Hervey Stallworth | January 18, 1993 | 446966 |
| Philip is quick to judge Luther (M. C. Gainey), an ex-con Will urged him to hire as a handyman, after the house is robbed. | ||||||
| 65 | 16 | "Bundle of Joy" | Jeff Melman | Andy Borowitz & Susan Borowitz | January 25, 1993 | 446974 |
| As Vivian's delivery date approaches, the family fantasizes about what the baby will mean to each of them: Ashley feels all but invisible, Hillary plans on using the child as her own personal slave, Carlton is angry to share the will and their father's money, and Geoffrey feels overwhelmed by the family's demands so he tricks Vivian into thinking she is having triplets. Will fantasizes his perfect family and not exactly how they turn out. | ||||||
| 66 | 17 | "Best Laid Plans" | Shelley Jensen | Efrem Seeger | February 1, 1993 | 446965 |
| Will tries to dupe a girl (Kim Fields) into intimacy. His girlfriend will not have sex with him unless they are married, so Will arranges for Jazz to impersonate a priest and performs a fake marriage ceremony. In the end, Will has an attack of conscience and backs out, though this results in his enraged girlfriend driving off in Uncle Phil's car when she finds out, and an equally angry Uncle Phil deciding to think long and hard for a cruel enough punishment for him. | ||||||
| 67 | 18 | "The Alma Matter" | Jeff Melman | Lisa Rosenthal | February 8, 1993 | 446968 |
| Ed (Earl Boen), a representative from Princeton University, begins interviewing students at Bel Air Prep. When Will makes a good impression in his interview and gets a conditional acceptance by acting naturally, Carlton thinks that is trickery and decides to imitate him – only for this to backfire badly and earn him an outright rejection, as well as a suspension from school after unintentionally making a death threat toward Ed out of desperation. After initially lying that he got in on a full scholarship, a phone call from the principal forces him to admit the truth to his furious family. Feeling utterly depressed and wishing he'd never been born, Carlton soon gets a visit from his guardian angel Tom Jones, who helps him see the light. After his suspension is over, Phil grounds Carlton for his suspension and learns why he messed up his interview. | ||||||
| 68 | 19 | "Just Say Yo" | Shelley Jensen | Myles Avery Mapp & K. Snyder | February 15, 1993 | 446969 |
| While juggling basketball practice, education, home life, and his social life, Will is offered amphetamines, known as Speed, by a friend. After debating whether or not to use it, he doesn't and stores the drugs in his locker. While at the prom, Carlton finds the drugs and, thinking it's Vitamin E, takes the bottle, ending up in the hospital. | ||||||
| 69 | 20 | "The Baby Comes Out" | Jeff Melman | Samm-Art Williams | February 22, 1993 | 446967 |
| Vivian's baby is a week late, but family members and her visiting sisters Vy and Janice are at a beauty salon when it is time to rush to the hospital. Uncle Phil, Jazz and Will are stuck in an elevator with a smoker. The only people left in the house are Geoffrey and Ashley. Geoffrey can't handle a car, while Ashley, although 13, knows how to drive. The baby comes out and the family decide his name. They all come up with names like Nicholas, Andrew, Sha-bang, Rufus, Brad etc. before settling on Nicholas. | ||||||
| 70 | 21 | "You Bet Your Life" | Jeff Melman | Cheryl Gard | March 1, 1993 | 446970 |
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Will and Carlton go to Nevada to check out a college, when their car wrecks on their way there, forcing them to stop at a funky cafe-casino, only to realize Jazz was there all the time(inside the car trunk) and they have no money to pay the car's repair, so they test their luck at the casino, but just when they got money and the car is ready to go, Carlton gets obsessed with gambling, forcing Will and Jazz to leave him there and get out. Soon after that, Will gets worried about his cousin, so he and Jazz get back to the casino, only to get to see a local bully known as Bo(played by Heavyweight boxing champ Riddick Bowe) wreaks havoc with Carlton's mind and Will's face. In order to defend his cousin, Will fights Bo instead. | ||||||
| 71 | 22 | "Ain't No Business Like Show Business" | Jeff Melman | Story by : Jeff Pollack & Will Smith Teleplay by : Jeff Pollack | April 12, 1993 | 446971 |
| Will lands Jazz a spot in a comedy showcase after accompanying Keith Campbell (D. L. Hughley), a comedian friend to an audition. | ||||||
| 72 | 23 | "The Way We Were" | Maynard C. Virgil | Michael Fry | May 3, 1993 | 446973 |
| Series clips illustrate family recollections as the kids put together a scrapbook for Vivian and Philip, who want to renew their vows on their anniversary. | ||||||
| 73 | 24 | "Six Degrees of Graduation" | Jeff Melman | Bryan Winter & Efrem Seeger | May 10, 1993 | 446972 |
| Vy anticipates Will's graduation with enthusiasm, but there may be discord when Vy learns Will is failing music. Carlton is named Valedictorian and has trouble coming up with his speech. To pass his music class, Will must sing at the graduation ceremony with a class of children. | ||||||
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